82 FR 24767 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Request and Comment Request
SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 102 (May 30, 2017)
Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 102 (May 30, 2017)
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[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 102 (Tuesday, May 30, 2017)] [Notices] [Pages 24767-24769] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2017-10969] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION [Docket No: SSA-2017-0029] Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Request and Comment Request The Social Security Administration (SSA) publishes a list of information collection packages requiring clearance by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with Public Law 104-13, the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, effective October 1, 1995. This notice includes revisions of OMB-approved information collections. SSA is soliciting comments on the accuracy of the agency's burden estimate; the need for the information; its practical utility; ways to enhance its quality, utility, and clarity; and ways to minimize burden on respondents, including the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology. Mail, email, or fax your comments and recommendations on the information collection(s) to the OMB Desk Officer and SSA Reports Clearance Officer at the following addresses or fax numbers. (OMB), Office of Management and Budget, Attn: Desk Officer for SSA, Fax: 202-395-6974, Email address: [email protected]. (SSA), Social Security Administration, OLCA, Attn: Reports Clearance Director, 3100 West High Rise, 6401 Security Blvd., Baltimore, MD 21235, Fax: 410-966-2830, Email address: [email protected]. Or you may submit your comments online through www.regulations.gov, referencing Docket ID Number [SSA-2017-0029]. I. The information collections below are pending at SSA. SSA will submit them to OMB within 60 days from the date of this notice. To be sure we consider your comments, we must receive them no later than July 31, 2017. Individuals can obtain copies of the collection instruments by writing to the above email address. 1. State Death Match Collections--20 CFR 404.301, 404.310-404.311, 404.316, 404.330-404.341, 404.350-404.352, 404.371, and 416.912-0960- 0700. SSA uses the State Death Match Collections to ensure the accuracy of payment files by detecting unreported or inaccurate deaths of beneficiaries. Under the Social Security Act (Act), entitlement to retirement, disability, wife's, husband's, or parent's benefits terminate when the beneficiary dies. The states furnish death certificate information to SSA via the manual registration process or the Electronic Death Registration Process (EDR). Both death match processes are automated electronic transfers between the states and SSA. The respondents are the states' bureaus of vital statistics. Type of Request: Revision of an OMB-approved information collection. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Average cost Estimated Modality of completion Number of Frequency of Number of per record total annual respondents response responses request cost burden ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Non-EDR ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- State Death Match--CyberFusion/ 45 3,700 166,500 $.88 $146,520 GSO: Non-EDR Records from EDR sites.......................... State Death Match--CyberFusion/ 12 48,000 576,000 .88 506,880 GSO: Non-EDR sites............. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total....................... 57 .............. 742,500 .............. 653,400 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EDR and Expected EDR ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- State Death Match-EDR........... 45 48,500 2,182,500 3.17 6,918,525 States Expected to Become--State 7 62,600 438,200 3.17 1,389,094 Death Match-EDR Within the Next 3 Years........................ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Totals...................... 52 .............. 2,620,700 .............. 8,307,619 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [[Page 24768]] Grand Total ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Grand Total................. 109 .............. 3,363,200 .............. * 8,961,019 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Please note that both of these data matching processes are electronic and there only a cost burden, and no hourly burden for the respondent to provide this information. 2. Application for Access to SSA Systems--20 CFR 401.45--0960-0791. SSA uses Form SSA-120, Application for Access to SSA Systems, to allow limited access to SSA's information resources for SSA employees and non-Federal employees (contractors). SSA requires supervisory approval, and local or component Security Officer review prior to granting this access. The respondents are SSA employees and non-Federal Employees (contractors) who require access to SSA systems to perform their jobs. Note: Because SSA employees are Federal workers exempt from the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act, the burden below is only for SSA contractors. Type of Request: Revision of an OMB-approved information collection. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Estimated Number of Frequency of Average burden total annual Modality of completion respondents response per response burden (minutes) (hours) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SSA-120 (paper)................................. 685 1 2 23 SSA-120 (Internet).............................. 1,482 1 1.5 37 --------------------------------------------------------------- Totals...................................... 2,167 .............. .............. 60 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- II. SSA submitted the information collection below to OMB for clearance. Your comments regarding the information collection would be most useful if OMB and SSA receive them 30 days from the date of this publication. To be sure we consider your comments, we must receive them no later than June 29, 2017. Individuals can obtain copies of the OMB clearance package by writing to [email protected]. RS/DI Quality Review Case Analysis: Sampled Number Holder; Auxiliaries/Survivors; Parent; and Stewardship Annual Earnings Test-- 0960-0189. Section 205(a) of the Act authorizes the Commissioner of SSA to conduct the quality review process, which entails collecting information related to the accuracy of payments made under the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Program (OASDI). Sections 228(a)(3), 1614(a)(1)(B), and 1836(2) of the Act require a determination of the citizenship or alien status of the beneficiary; this is only one item that we might question as part of the Annual Quality review. SSA uses Forms SSA-2930, SSA-2931, and SSA-2932 to establish a national payment accuracy rate for all cases in payment status, and to serve as a source of information regarding problem areas in the Retirement Survivors Insurance (RSI) and Disability Insurance (DI) programs. We also use the information to measure the accuracy rate for newly adjudicated RSI or DI cases. SSA uses Form SSA-4659 to evaluate the effectiveness of the annual earnings test, and to use the results in developing ongoing improvements in the process. About twenty-five percent of respondents will have in-person reviews and receive one of the following appointment letters: (1) SSA-L8550-U3 (Appointment Letter--Sample Individual); (2) SSA-L8551-U3 (Appointment Letter--Sample Family); or (3) the SSA-L8552-U3 (Appointment Letter-- Rep Payee). Seventy-five percent of respondents will receive a notice for a telephone review using the SSA-L8553-U3 (Beneficiary Telephone Contact) or the SSA-L8554-U3 (Rep Payee Telephone Contact). To help the beneficiary prepare for the interview, we include three forms with each notice: (1) SSA-85 (Information Needed to Review Your Social Security Claim) lists the information the beneficiary will need to gather for the interview; (2) SSA-2935 (Authorization to the Social Security Administration to Obtain Personal Information) verifies the beneficiary's correct payment amount, if necessary; and (3) SSA-8552 (Interview Confirmation) confirms or reschedules the interview if necessary. The respondents are a statistically valid sample of all OASDI beneficiaries in current pay status or their representative payees. Type of Request: Revision of an OMB-approved information collection. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Average Estimated Number of Frequency of burden per total annual Modality of completion respondents response response burden (minutes) (hours) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SSA-2930........................................ 1,500 1 30 750 SSA-2931........................................ 850 1 30 425 SSA-4659........................................ 325 1 10 54 SSA-L8550-U3.................................... 385 1 5 32 SSA-L8551-U3.................................... 95 1 5 8 SSA-L8552-U3.................................... 35 1 5 3 SSA-L8553-U3.................................... 4,970 1 5 414 SSA-L8554-U3.................................... 705 1 5 59 SSA-8552........................................ 2,350 1 5 196 SSA-85.......................................... 3,850 1 5 321 SSA-2935........................................ 2,350 1 5 196 [[Page 24769]] SSA-8510 (also saved under OMB No. 800 1 5 67 0960[dash]0707)................................ --------------------------------------------------------------- Totals...................................... 17,700 .............. .............. 2,525 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dated: May 23, 2017. Naomi R. Sipple, Reports Clearance Officer, Social Security Administration. [FR Doc. 2017-10969 Filed 5-26-17; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4191-02-P
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A. The number assigned to this disaster (OMB), Office of Management and
Escobar, Office of Disaster Assistance, for physical damage is 15132 B and for Budget, Attn: Desk Officer for SSA,
U.S. Small Business Administration, economic injury is 15133 0. Fax: 202–395–6974, Email address:
409 3rd Street SW., Suite 6050, The States which received an EIDL OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov.
Washington, DC 20416, (202) 205–6734. Declaration # are OKLAHOMA. (SSA), Social Security Administration,
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance OLCA, Attn: Reports Clearance
hereby given that as a result of the Numbers 59002 and 59008) Director, 3100 West High Rise, 6401
Administrator’s disaster declaration, Dated: May 22, 2017. Security Blvd., Baltimore, MD 21235,
applications for disaster loans may be Linda E. McMahon, Fax: 410–966–2830, Email address:
filed at the address listed above or other Administrator. OR.Reports.Clearance@ssa.gov.
locally announced locations. [FR Doc. 2017–10985 Filed 5–26–17; 8:45 am] Or you may submit your comments
The following areas have been BILLING CODE 8025–01–P online through www.regulations.gov,
determined to be adversely affected by referencing Docket ID Number [SSA–
the disaster: 2017–0029].
Primary Counties: Cherokee, Haskell SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION I. The information collections below
Contiguous Counties: [Docket No: SSA–2017–0029] are pending at SSA. SSA will submit
them to OMB within 60 days from the
Oklahoma: Adair, Delaware, Latimer, date of this notice. To be sure we
Le Flore, Mayes, McIntosh, Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Request and consider your comments, we must
Muskogee, Pittsburg, Sequoyah, receive them no later than July 31, 2017.
Comment Request
Wagoner Individuals can obtain copies of the
The Social Security Administration collection instruments by writing to the
The Interest Rates are: (SSA) publishes a list of information above email address.
Percent
collection packages requiring clearance
by the Office of Management and 1. State Death Match Collections—20
Budget (OMB) in compliance with CFR 404.301, 404.310–404.311, 404.316,
For Physical Damage: 404.330–404.341, 404.350–404.352,
Homeowners With Credit Avail- Public Law 104–13, the Paperwork
able Elsewhere ...................... 3.875 Reduction Act of 1995, effective October
404.371, and 416.912–0960–0700. SSA
Homeowners Without Credit 1, 1995. This notice includes revisions uses the State Death Match Collections
Available Elsewhere .............. 1.938 of OMB-approved information to ensure the accuracy of payment files
Businesses With Credit Avail- collections. by detecting unreported or inaccurate
able Elsewhere ...................... 6.430 SSA is soliciting comments on the deaths of beneficiaries. Under the Social
Businesses Without Credit accuracy of the agency’s burden Security Act (Act), entitlement to
Available Elsewhere .............. 3.215 retirement, disability, wife’s, husband’s,
estimate; the need for the information;
Non-Profit Organizations With or parent’s benefits terminate when the
Credit Available Elsewhere ... 2.500 its practical utility; ways to enhance its beneficiary dies. The states furnish
Non-Profit Organizations With- quality, utility, and clarity; and ways to
out Credit Available Else- minimize burden on respondents, death certificate information to SSA via
where ..................................... 2.500 including the use of automated the manual registration process or the
For Economic Injury: collection techniques or other forms of Electronic Death Registration Process
Businesses & Small Agricultural information technology. Mail, email, or (EDR). Both death match processes are
Cooperatives Without Credit fax your comments and automated electronic transfers between
Available Elsewhere .............. 3.215 recommendations on the information the states and SSA. The respondents are
Non-Profit Organizations With- collection(s) to the OMB Desk Officer the states’ bureaus of vital statistics.
out Credit Available Else-
where ..................................... 2.500
and SSA Reports Clearance Officer at Type of Request: Revision of an OMB-
the following addresses or fax numbers. approved information collection.
Average cost Estimated total
Number of Frequency of Number of
Modality of completion per record annual
respondents response responses request cost burden
Non-EDR
State Death Match—CyberFusion/GSO: Non-EDR
Records from EDR sites .................................................. 45 3,700 166,500 $.88 $146,520
State Death Match—CyberFusion/GSO: Non-EDR sites .... 12 48,000 576,000 .88 506,880
Total .............................................................................. 57 ........................ 742,500 ........................ 653,400
EDR and Expected EDR
State Death Match-EDR ...................................................... 45 48,500 2,182,500 3.17 6,918,525
States Expected to Become—State Death Match-EDR
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Within the Next 3 Years ................................................... 7 62,600 438,200 3.17 1,389,094
Totals ............................................................................ 52 ........................ 2,620,700 ........................ 8,307,619
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Average Estimated
Number of Frequency of burden per total annual
Modality of completion respondents response response burden
(minutes) (hours)
SSA–8510 (also saved under OMB No. 0960-0707) ...................................... 800 1 5 67
Totals ........................................................................................................ 17,700 ........................ ........................ 2,525
Dated: May 23, 2017. between age 50 and 60 may be entitled (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
Naomi R. Sipple, to disability insurance benefits based on Program Nos. 96.001, Social Security-
a deceased spouse’s earnings record. We Retirement Insurance, and 96.004 Social
Reports Clearance Officer, Social Security
sometimes refer to these benefits as Security-Survivors Insurance)
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2017–10969 Filed 5–26–17; 8:45 am] disabled widows’ benefits or widows’ Nancy A. Berryhill,
BILLING CODE 4191–02–P disability benefits. Before Congress Acting Commissioner of Social Security.
enacted the Omnibus Budget [FR Doc. 2017–10962 Filed 5–26–17; 8:45 am]
Reconciliation Act (OBRA) of 1990,1 we BILLING CODE 4191–02–P
SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION used a special standard to determine
disability in claims for disabled
[Docket No. SSA–2017–0016]
widows’ benefits that differed from the
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Rescission of Social Security Ruling standard we used in other title II
91–3p: Policy Interpretation Ruling disability claims. Section 5103 of Federal Aviation Administration
Title II: Determining Entitlement to OBRA 2 amended the Social Security
Disability Benefits for Months Prior to Act (Act) by making the standard used Agency Information Collection
January 1991 for Widows, Widowers to determine disability for disabled Activities: Requests for Comments;
and Surviving Divorced Spouses widows’ benefits payable in months Clearance of Renewed Approval of
Claims after December 1990 identical to the Information Collection:
standard used in other title II disability Representatives of the Administrator
AGENCY: Social Security Administration. claims. However, we still used the
ACTION: Notice of rescission of Social special pre-OBRA standard to determine AGENCY: Federal Aviation
Security Ruling, 91–3p. disability for disabled widows’ benefits Administration (FAA), DOT.
payable for months prior to January ACTION: Notice and request for
SUMMARY: In accordance with 20 CFR 1991.3 comments.
402.35(b)(1), the Acting Commissioner
of Social Security gives notice of the Between 1989 and 1991, several SUMMARY: In accordance with the
rescission of Social Security Ruling United States Courts of Appeals found Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FAA
(SSR) 91–3p. that the pre-OBRA standard we used invites public comments about our
was underinclusive in its adjudicatory intention to request the Office of
DATES: Effective Date: This rescission
criteria, and that the Act required Management and Budget (OMB)
will be effective May 30, 2017. consideration of functional limitations
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: approval to renew a previously
in determining entitlement to disabled approved information collection. The
Chris Grovich, Office of Disability widow’s benefits. As a result of those
Policy, Social Security Administration, collection of information is for the
court decisions, we revaluated our purpose of obtaining essential
6401 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, MD interpretation of the pre-OBRA standard
21235–6401, (410) 966–1696 or TTY information concerning the applicant’s
and published SSR 91–3p, which professional and personal qualifications.
410–966–5609, for information about directed adjudicators to apply the
this notice. For information on The FAA uses the information provided
interpretation of the pre-OBRA standard to screen and select designees who act
eligibility or filing for benefits, call our set out in the SSR when determining
national toll-free number, 1–800–772– as representatives of the FAA
disability for disabled widows’ benefits Administrator in performing various
1213 or TTY 1–800–325–0778, or visit payable for months prior to January
our Internet site, Social Security Online, certification and examination functions
1991. under Title VI of Federal Aviation Act.
at http://www.socialsecurity.gov. By statute, entitlement to disabled
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Through DATES: Written comments should be
widows’ benefits cannot be established submitted by June 29, 2017.
SSRs, we make available to the public more than 12 months prior to the filing
precedential decisions relating to the ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
of an application for such benefits.4 We
Federal old-age, survivors, disability, are rescinding SSR 91–3p as obsolete invited to submit written comments on
supplemental security income, and because a new application for disabled the proposed information collection to
special veterans benefits programs. We widows’ benefits cannot establish the Office of Information and Regulatory
may base SSRs on determinations or entitlement to these benefits prior to Affairs, Office of Management and
decisions made at all levels of January 1991, and we have no pending Budget. Comments should be addressed
administrative adjudication, Federal applications that involve entitlement to to the attention of the Desk Officer,
Department of Transportation/FAA, and
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court decisions, Commissioner’s disabled widows’ benefits for months
decisions, opinions of the Office of prior to January 1991. sent via electronic mail to oira_
General Counsel, or other submission@omb.eop.gov, or faxed to
interpretations of the law and 1 Public
(202) 395–6974, or mailed to the Office
Law 101–508, 104 Stat. 1388.
regulations. 2 104 Stat. at 1388–251.
of Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Widows, widowers, and surviving 3 Section 5103(e) of Public Law 101–508, 104 Office of Management and Budget,
divorced spouses (hereinafter referred to Stat. at 1388–253. Docket Library, Room 10102, 725 17th
as widows) who are disabled and 4 42 U.S.C. 402(j)(1)(A). Street NW., Washington, DC 20503.
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